The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-04 00:00:00

great political letter-writer. He has given us a The F clever novel, in n o way unworthy of his re oreign and C o l on i a l li nes are also in very putation, limited request at barely previous quotations. but one in no way calculated to enhance the cele- Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have in most brity already acquired by the vigorous pen of instances sh own a further fall in value. British "Manhatta n ." American Exchange, however, have advanced to 33 34; Imperial Bank realise 40; European, 121, ; Alliance, 59 62; London and County, 64; Union of London, 55 57; Hudson Bay Company, 18 , 1 19; National Discount Company, 13i; and Egyptian Trading Company, 44 4. The following are the current quotations of some of the principal new undertakings :—lnter national Iflnn Credit, 11 2 prem.; Telegraph Con struction, 1k prom. ; Provincial Banking, I 1 prem.; Sabloniere Hotel, 1i preen.; and North Australian Company, 1Q prem. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day, couß r OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) COUSEN V. COUSEN. This was a petiiiin Presented by the wife, pray ing for dissolution of marriage en the ground of cruelty and adultery. The parties were married at St. James's, Picc3• dilly, and for some time after they resided with the father of the respondent, who was an extensive farmer in Yorkshire. I❑ 1862 the petitioner was at Scarborough, and the respondent at this time was guilty of great neglect of his wife. Since that time she had been dangerously ill from nervous fever, and was too ill to attend the trial. Her de position was read. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols i i i Ditto Account, M a y 5 .... per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent. BBa 7h 81 New 2/ per Cent. Jan. 1891— . — Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873........„ — A qnuities, 30 yrs, expire nth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l4/ Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1903 204 f 4I Juno. Exchequer Bill s , £l,OOO, 2:1 & 3 per Cent. 8 15 hrch. 9 4 dis Ditto £5OO ditto £lOO and £2OO 13,,ak England Stk, 41 per Ct. Ditto Account~ INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10/ per Cent., April 1874 217 Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Ditto Account Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct, 1883.. — Do Certificates Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. Ditto 5/ per Cent., May, 1879 — Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1864 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 981 DO . To Bends £l,OOO — Ditto under £l,OOO .• • • A domestic in the service of the brother of the respondent said she had frequently seen the re spondent make free with one of her fellow servants, Ellen Walker, and on one occasion she saw them under such circumstances that left no doubt as to an improper intimacy. She also said the respondent treated his wife with great unkindness, although he did it with the appearance of kindness. Ellen Walmer also had seen the respondent guilty of improper conduct with Ellen Walker. Dr. S wabey offered no defence. The Judge Ordinary said he should consult the authorities whether the conduct of the respondent amounted to cruelty, and he should require further evidence to show that the petitioner was unable to attend. Judgment deferred. STENT V. STENT. This case for dissolution of marriage instituted by the wife against the husband. The respondent married the petitioner at the age of 17, and after that he went to China, and re mained there some time. He neglected his wife while he was away and on his return, and finally be went to Ramsgate, where he lived in profligacy with another female. Rale nisi with costs. FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 — Buenos Avres 6 per Cent Ditto Account — Ohilian 6 per Cent. — Ditto 41 pet Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian 7 per Cent lOll Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupwas.. Ditto Account Ditto Coupons NI 1)i! to Account — Guatemala 5 per Cent. Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Italian 5 per Cent.Plarennana Railway ) 731 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account.... Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada .. 3O Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deterred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Peruvian 41 per Cent .. Ditto Account - ) — Ditto 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Ditto 41 per Cont., 1862 Ditto Account — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1858, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account 4B/ 1 Ditto Scrip (1863) £3O paid — p us Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 — Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 .. — Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account — Ditto Passive Ditto Account 3ll i 4 4 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Ditto Account llt Swedish, 4 per Cent — Turkish 6 per Cent. 1851 — Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account — Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account .. 71} 701 / Ditto £lOO Bond s .. 7l 701 ' Ditto 1863 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account — Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account — Ditto 11 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Loud )n. Austrian, 5 per Cent,. Ex. 10 Florins. Belgian 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f... Dutch 2} per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account THREE O'CLOCK. Consols Money Ditto Account, Juno .... 91i POLICE INTELLIGENCE —This Dap. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. COMMITTAL WITHOUT A FINE FOR WIFE BEATING, —Frederick Hodges, a working jeweller, living at No. 16, Phoenix-street, Crown-street, Soho, was charged with assulting his wife, Emily Hodges. The complainant, who was decently attired, and had an infant in her arms, said—The prisoner is my husband. He is a working jeweller, but has done no work for some time, having been laid up far four months. Yesterday he spent a helf-crown, which I had received for some work I had done. 1 told him that I wanted the money for the house, and he then knocked me down and knelt upon my chest, and beat me about the eyes several times. I screamed out and assistance came. My husband is always knocking me about, and once before I took a warrant out against him; but because I did not appear against him in consequence of his promising not to assault mo again, he is always throw ing it in my face, Mr. John Albert Smith, stationer, 39, Upper Rathbone place, said—l was passing through Phanix-street last night when I heard cries of "Murder" and " Take away the knife." I saw a door open and rushed into a room, where I found the man with his shirt torn, and the female streaming with blood. I went for a constable, and on re turning with one (Searey, 104 F) I found the man being held by a friend. The wife then gave her husband into custody. Tho prisoner —I was compelled to strike my wife to make her release her grasp. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did the prisoner complain of his wife assaulting him. Mr. Smith—He seemed in such a state of intoxication at the time that he was not capable of giving any account of it. Mr. Tyrwhitt-1 shall commit the prisoner for three months' hard labour, A GENTLEMAN CHARQED WITH ASSAULT.—David Colin Campbell, staying at the Great Western Hotel, Paddington was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting John Shackleford, porter, at 226, Piccadilly. The complainant said the defendant came to his em ployer's house, a refreshment house, about half .past 12 last night, and wished to be admitted, but in consequence of the defendant bein g tipsy, and havin g been informed that he had broken several articles at another house and been turned out the previous night, he refused to admit him. The de fendant persisted on entering, and overpowered him, and gave him a blow in the eye. He then gisvo the defendant into custody. The defendant said he had no questions to ask the corn , plainant. lie was intoxicated at the time. Mr Tyrwhitt fined the defendant I.os, or men days' ha prisonment in default, WESTMINSTER. - - DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT JUSTLY PUNISIIED..---George Webb, a very respectable-looking young man, was charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself, and violently assaulting. the police in the execution of their duty. Michael Money, 61 V, said that at half-past ten on the previous evening he was on duty in Gurtler-grove, Fulham road, and saw the defendant driving furiously down the grove in the direction of a large sewer that was open, and fearing some accident might happen, called to defendant to stop, but he continued to drive at the same pace, witness pursuing him as fast as possible, and calling out "danger." On reaching the bottom of the grove witness caught the horse's head, just as he had broken two lamps placed to show the repairs that were going on, and knocked down some boards and barricades, and was about to fall into the sewer. Defendant then got out of the van and catching witness by the back of the neck assaulted him and threw him down. Witness then took him into custody when he struggled and kicked violently, used very bad language, and a sergeant coming up he was taken into custody. Sergeant John Large, 35 V, said he was at his house at the time of this affair and came out in time to see the con stable prevent the horse falling into the sewer. Witness got his coat and when he come out again saw defendant and the constable on the ground. He went to assist the con stable, and defendant kicked at him, and in warding off a kick aimed at his person, received it on his thumb, putting it out of joint, and causing it to s well so. Defendant was very violent, but was ultimately got to the station. Defendant admitted the charge, and said he was very sorry. He supposed he was asleep when he drove down the gro-ee. Mr. Arnold, after animadverting on his conduct, com mitted Jahn to 10 days imprisonment in the Rouse of Cor rection. MONEY MARKET AND COMMEUCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. In the general discount market there is still a very active d eman d , an d the rates show undi minished st r i ngency. W hen the mercantile en• gagements now due are paid up the inquiry may slacken, but there are no indications of a subsidence at Present. A large amount of business is reported in the discount office of the Bank, and in the Stock Exchange loans are in request at full quotations. The amount of sp ec i e t a k en out by the Syria, which left to-day for India and China, was £152,773. The subscription lists of the Albert Insurance Company, and the Eastern Exchange Bank close on Saturday next. A meeting of the shareholders of the War rant Banking Company was held to-day, for the purpose of confirming resolutions for changing the name of the institution to the Warrant Finance Company—M r A. D. Depass in the chair. The previous minutes having been unanimously adopted, the business of the meeting was concluded. A special meeting of the shareholders of the London Bank of Scotland was also held to-day... Mr W. W. Cargill, M.P., in the chair. A resolu tion was proposed and carried, that the capital of the company be increased by the creation of 10,000 new shares of £lOO each, to be issued pre rata to present shareholders at a premium not exceeding £4 each. A circular has been issued by the directors of the Oriental Bank, stating that they have received the sanction of the Treasury to increase the capital of 'the corporation to £1,500,000 by an issue of new shares of £25 each. It is proposed to allot these shares at the price of £45 mium of per sha re , b e i ng a pre £2o to the proprietors whose names shall appear on the register on the 20th inst., in the pro portion of one in six, i. one-sixth of a share for every share then held. Payments are to be made as follows: £lO on June 15, £lO on Sept. 1, and £25 on Dec. 31. Discount at the rate of 5 per cent. is to be allowed an prepayment, and the new issue will participate in the dividend for the six months ending June 30, 1865. The prospectus of the Tavistock Iron Works and Steel Or:inance Company (Limited) is issued, with a proposed capital of £200,000, of which one.half is first proposed to be issued in 5,000 shares of £2O ev.da-1:1 to be paid on application, and £2 on allotment ; the future calls, made at intervals of two months, up to £10; which sum, it is at present 'estimated, will be all that will ba required, The company has been established with a view to carry cut on a large scale the manufacture of Bessemer's and other patents, to construct steel ordnance, and, in fact, the manufacture of iron and steel for all :kinds of machinery and all purposes. For this , end the directors have entered into an agreement with Messrs. Gill and Co. for the entire purchase of their long-established, extensive, and valuable works at Tavistock. The purchase includes several smportant patent rights, contracts, &c., among which are Crease's Pneumatic Tunnelling Engines and the Blakely guns, which patnts and contracts alone, the d irectors are of opinion, e will at once pro duce a remunerative dividend for any investments. The directors advert to the increased uses to which steel is now applied, and the large profits to be realised by the improved method of its raanufac tare, and are of opinion that a sure, large, and re munerative business may be done. One half the shares of the first issue have been already subscribed for. The names of the directors will inspire every Confidence in the development of the objects of the Company. They are all gentlemen well and favour twly known as eminently respectable, and, what is More, they are all thoroughly practical men. The share list of the Bonelli Electric Company is announced to close on the 7th instant for London, taut, in consequence of some important provincial negotiations pending, the list will not be closed for the provinces tercre the 14th, A very ingenious contrivance has been patented by Mr. Tent, of Birchin-lane, City, by which the troublesome operation of hanging windows and beds with drapery is quite simplified, by mean of a patent curta i n hook, which is so made that s the folds of the curtain are in a second secured by one side of the hook, and the other side is ready for its place on the cornice or on the pole. N can be more simpl e or expeditious for the purposeo thing than 'this useful invention of Mr. Tent ; remarkably c h eap. they are withal Two OCLOCK. Business r ecommenced this morning in t ' he market for Consols amidst considerable depression, and pric,es EOM gave way / per cent. de,cline, however, brou g h t in a f This additional ew buye rs , an d a .1. ally of 1 p er cent. h as ensued; ti the present quota :inst., an d 91k 1 for the June account. Affair sths appea r very unsettled. Tile New Thr ees are 87i 88 k, the Three per Cents. Reduced 88Z I, Annuities per Cents. 111. March Exchequer Bills, 8s to 15s dis., and June 9s 4s die. Indian 5 per Cents. 104,1 10 5, and the Debentures 981. The Foreign Market opened a very iht a ppearan ce , and a decided decline was apparent all round, but a partial recovery has since occurred, t Bp d there i 3 very little business in progress. r-r " 1 - 2 h 6 Per Cents; 1862, are 701 711 ; ditto C`-'"cli"el6l i ; Mexic9n,43 1 ; ditto New Loan, 1.1 11 die. ; Greek, 23 1 ; Spanish Passive, 31 1 ; Rusoian Scrip, '' .3 .i I prem. ; Swedish Scrip,l 1 prem.; and the Confederate boas, G 5 67 . Tito operations in the Railway Share Market have been of a very res tricted character, and the few bargains reported exhibit a further decli ne i n prices. Metropolitan have receded Western, £l, Midl an d an d South Easte £2, Gre a t sad TAnciiihire And York6hiro rn, each 155. ; , and Brighton, 10s. i 10 112 Do. to rt me. •( 100 1107 i 10831 1 0 7} BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 id uliford Amalgamated 30 32 Devon G. Cone, (Tavist ; 1 550 660 East Bassett (Illogan) 30 65 68 East Clogau Gold Ltd East Caradon ..... t 14.8 30 31 : East Cara Brea... 3.4.0 61 7 - E. W'lltussel (Tavistk.) 8 13.0 32 41 Gam..tSt.Aubyn(Gwen , 581 7 9 Great South Tolgus 17s 21 3k G. Wheal Vor (licit:lton 40 34 36 34 Grenville . El erc , d's-loot . 8.12 86 38 tiingston Downs 4.18.0 31 4 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lclant 18 26 liarke Valley.. 4 Ilyndy Iro n O ro (Li m : 2A lk f New Setun 192 85 95 —• North Downs 22 11 12 N.Wh'i Basret(lllo.fan 3.1.0 12 22 North Wheal Crofty Par Consols (R. Bluzey SD Previcienee(Uny Lelia.) 10.0.7 41 43 South Caradon(St.Cleer 1} 450 170 S. Cara Brea (Illogan) — S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.18.9 40 50 , Stray Park 30.17.6 31 33 I famar Silv.ez Lead hlEn — - rin Crott 9 88 19 West Basset (Illogan) ll 9 1.0 91 W, Cr radon (I4tskcard) 5 19 21 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 5* 90 95 92 Wheal Buller(itedruth) 10 35 40 `ti heal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott Wheal Mary Ann ;Lien ) B 111 121 Wheal Seton . 581 1971 2021 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 24 24 - Wheal Union 3.17 2 21 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. London, Tilbury, and Southend, 101, Midland Bradford pref: stock, 91 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 91 Namur and Liege gua. 14f. per annum, 81 Namur and Liege, gua. 6 per cent. pl., 18i Sambre and Meuse, 7f Ban Paulo gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 191 FOREIGN MDTES, Cobre Copper,"3s 4; Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 2} United Mexican (lien;, Yudananautana of S. Australia, 1im.,:31 t 3 BANKS. Agra and United Service (lira.), 146 Alliance (lim.), 62 59 61 Ditto, new, 50 494 Anglo Austrian, 64 Anglo-Italian, limited, 54 Bank of Egypt, 294 Bank of Queensland (litn), 19 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 13 1 122 British and American Exchange (Um.), 33 4 30 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 114 City, 135 Colonial, Rm., 41 Consolidated Bank, lim., 11 Continental, lim., 17 English and Irish, 1im.,t15 European Bank, lira. ,112} 112 Hindustan, China, and Japan (Um.), 82 Ditto, new, issued at 2 pm., 134 Imperial Bank (Urn.), 40 Imperial Ottoman, 20; Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 6 54 London Bank of Scotland, lim., 18 London and Colonial (lim.), 15 London and County, 64 34 London Joint Stock, 46 London and South African, 264 London and 11 estminster, Ott Merchant Bank, Jim., 212 Mercantile and Exchange, lim., 18 In 184 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, him, 332 2j 2 Mexican, Bin., 6 National Provincial of England, 155 National Bank, Ditto,new;43 Oriental Banc; Corporation. 66 8 Schade, Punjab, and Delhi, lim , 101 E Ditto, new, 104 South Eastern, lim., 54 Z. Standard of British South Africa (limi), 324 Union of London, 57 5 Gi MISCELLANEOUS. Commercial Union, Insurance, 61 Credit Mubilicr, 10 92 Discount Corporation, 154 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, Urn., 44 4 1 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lira., Of I Hudson's Bay, 114 19 181 Imperial Financial, lim., 101 ; International Financial Society, lira., 11 102 11 Joint Stock Discount, lim., 74 Land Securities, lirn., 54 14 London Financial Association, lira., 26 Ditto, new, 154 National Discount Company, lien., 134 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, Ditto, new, 504 Smith, Knight, and Co., lien., 6 for mow.) , Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), 1.1111, 64 universal Marine, Inourauce,llw,, 4k il•Proimil ~.., ME SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1864. Business done „ ff f iv • etralbr 1! • Wreck of the City of New York, CORK, Monday. The judgment of the Court of Inquiry into the wreck of this vessel was delivered to-day in the following terms by Mr. Cronin, R.M.:— " The Court in this important case having given the greatest consideration to and carefully weighed the evidence, as well as the documents and state ments on behalf of the master, James Kennedy, finds it its painful but imperative duty to give judgment that the late steamship City of New York was lost upon Daunt's Reck by the default of the master, James Kennedy, inasmuch as, having the choice of two channels, one clear and open, with three lights to direct him, the other narrow and contracted, and without sufficient marks, and on..y the eye to guide him at night, he preferred the latter, thereby accepting the responsibility and risk of his ship. Nor was he, in th 3 opinion of the Court, justified in running at such a high rate of speed without having seen the buoy, ho having at the tins the rock between him and the buoy. A misconception, therefore, of the distance from land and his proximity to the rock resulted in the loss of his ship and the imminent peril and danger to human life. However, the Court, tak ing into consideration the high character of Capt. Kennedy, is not disposed to pass too severe a sen- tence in his case as it might otherwise have been induced to pronounce. It is allowed Capt. Ken nedy's hitherto successful career to have due weight in apportioning sentence, but the duty of the Court to the public makes it incumbent on it to mark its sense of the captain's conduct in running unneces sary risk where human life and individual pro perty was at stake. The sentence of the Court, tferefore, is that the certificate of James Kennedy be suspended, and it is hereby suspended, for eight months from this date—namely, until the 31st of December, 1864." Mr. Justin M'Cartie, counsel for Captain Ken. nedy, said ft most important piece of evidence might have been given at the inquiry, but it did not come to his knowledge untii about 10 minutes after the proceedings terminated on Saturday. It was, that the captain of the Great Eastern brought her into Cork Harbour at night through the channel inside Daunt's Rock, and that at a time when her machinery was disabled and her steering gear bad. Mr. Cronin ---We aro only giving judgment on the evidence before us. Mr. M'Cartie—l now give notice that we intend to appeal. It is' generally thought that an appeal to the Board of Trade in these cases is merely one from the employes to the employers, lAA that is the only course left open to us according to the consti. tution, and that course we will adopt, With this notice the proceedings terminated. SHARE MARKETS—This day. Railways. 1 1 I 6 Si 81 9 83 5 1171 1181 ii I 0 35 37 16 17 58 DO 101. 106 464 47 6 7i O 1281 1291 o 1241 1151 - 130 In 91 93 63j 64 1f 1092 O I 64 86 1) 101 103 O 42 43 O 119 i 110 O 97 98 O 53 14 - - ,1 110 111 0 1201 130, [OO IC2 51 62 . 24} 25 o lto - 10i MI d 0 53 67 0 B , J 90 )0 128 131 5 l4 24 Lf.16.4 11 ?7 79 Ll 10/ Ili 0 121 123 0 39 40 0 64 66 0 93 35 0 90i 91 1103 105 8 9 1 361 37} 7 91 10 0 8 84 e , g) 165 17u 85 7 , 33 E p ll zo • I 96 93 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Closing Business Price. done. 1331 5 6u 3 1661 ,1 102 1 97 63! 111 10, 19 251 56 891 81 891 i 90 The Drawing Boom. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales wore a train of rich black silk, trimmed with crape and jet ornaments ; a petticoat of black silk covered with crape and bouillonnees of black tulle, ornamented with jet stars and butterflies; head dress, tiara of jet with black feathers and veile. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a train of rich black corded silk, trimmed with ruches of silk poiut d'Alencon and bouquet of silver wheatears; a petticoat of black siik covered with tulle, trimmed with point d'Alencon and silver wheatears ; head dress, a diadem of diamonds mounted with silver wheatears, feathers, and silver tulle veil ; stomacher, necklace, and earrings of pearls and diamonds. Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Meeklen burg-Strelitz wore a black satin train, trimmed with lace; a petticoat of moire antique, trimmed with rich lace and satin riband ; a stomacher of pearls and diamonds, a dia mond necklace, and a diamond of pearls and diamonds, with white feathers and white veil. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales wore the uniform of the 10th Hussars, of which regiment his Royal Highnesss is colonel, with the order of the Garter and the Star of India, The Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers having been introduced in the order of their precedence, the following had the honour of being presented to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, on behalf of her Majesty the Queen : By his Excellent.) , the Austrian Ambassador—M. de Biegeleben, Privy Councillor to his Majesty the Emperor and Plenipotentiary. By his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador—M. de Balan, Actual Privy Councillor of the King and Plenipo tentiary. By the Danish Minister—Baron Holger de Rosenkrantz, Secretary to the Legation; Baron de C - uldenkrone, Cham berlain to his Majesty tho King. and Councillor of Lega tion; and Baron de Bertouch, Chamberlain to the King and Councillor of Legation, By the Right Hon, the Secretary of State—His Excel lency the Baron de Beust, Plenipotentiary of the Germanic Confederation. Oa this occasion the Lady Mary Wood officiated for the Countess Russell, and the Earl De Grey and Ripon offi ciated for Earl Russell. The diplomatic circle was attended by the Turkish Am bassador and Madame Musurus ; Khalil Effendi, First Se cretary of Embassy ; Etienne Musurus Bey, Secretary of Embassy; and Paul Musurus Bey, Attaché ; the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi, Count Wimpffen, Councillor of Embassy; Count Kalnoky, Secretary of Em bassy; Prince Paul Esterhazy, Prince Yzenberg, and Count A. Apponyi, Attaches; the Russian Ambassador and the Baroness de Brunnow, M. Sabouroff, Councillor of Embassy, Baron Freedericksz, Secretary of Embassy, and Baron B. de Vietinghoff Scheel, Attache ; the Prussian Ambaskador and M. Fred er i c d o Katte, First Secretary of EmbTssy; the French Ambassador, the Marquis and Marquise de Cadore and the Vicomte de Virel ; the Belgian Minister, M. M. Delfosse, Councillor of Legation; and Baron B. Whettnal, Attache ; the Italian Minister and Count Maffei, First Secretary of Legation; the Portuguese Minister, and the Chevalier Santos, Secretary; the Saxon Minister, the Danish Minister (M. de Bille), M. de Quaade, M. de Krieger, M. C. A. Gosch and Madame A. Gosch ; the United States' Minister, with Mrs. Adams, and Mr Benjamin Morgan, Second Secretary of Legation ; the Swedish and Norwegian Minister and the Countess \Yacht meister ; the Netherlands Minister and Baron Mackay, Attache ; the Peruvian Minister, the Spanish Minister, Madame de Comyn, and the Duke de Granada, Attache; the Haytian Minister, the Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires, M. C. Tricoupi, the Greek Plenipotentiary; the two Pleni potentiaries from Madagascar, with their interpreter, the Rev. John Duffas ; the Earl de Grey and Ripon, Secretary of State for War ; and the Hon. Sir Edward Cast, K.C,H., Master of the Ceremonies to the Queen. Her Excellency the Countess of Bernstoff was unable to attend the Drawing-room, not quite having recovered from her late illness, The Baron and Baroness de Cetto were also unable to attend by reason of the recent death of her Imperial and Royal Highness the late Princess cf Luitpold of Bavaria. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. —Their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales honoured the performances at the Royal Italian Opera with their presence last evening at the repetition of "Un Ballo in Nasehera." Their Royal Highnesses were accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. the Grand Duchess of Xecklsnburg.Stralitz, and the Princess Mary, the illustrious party occupying FY g her Majesty's box. The house was crowded with fashionable company, among whom were observed the Duke and Duchess of Richmond and the Ladies Gordon Lennox, the Duke of Montrose and Lady Agnes Murray, the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, the Countess Dowager of Westmoreland, the Earl of Coventry, the Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, the French Ambassador, the Earl and Countess of Hopetoun, the Duke of Granada, Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald and Mrs. Macdonald ley and the Hon. Misses Stanley, L a d y G eraldine Somerset a a n n d d t t h h (l e Hon, Han. r s Blake, G r Lord y H a n and Ai r . L a a n d d y Mrs.s. tan le Captain and Lady Edith Abney SRy of Alder ley Curzon, Hastings, Lord and Lady Wodehouse, the Belgian Minister, Lady Langdale, Lady Molesworth, &c. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS AT COPENHAGEN, THE SEAT OF WAR IN DENMARK . — Turies, Gallenga ; Daily Nero, Skinner; .Daily Telegraph, Dicey; 0. Commettant ; Tatris, Arnoult ; Opinion Kationale, Louis Noir ; Noniteur de l'Armde, Fevrior. PERILS OF PLAY-WRITING.--It i 8 a favourite theory with some people, that any one capable of writing a good story is necessarily competent to produce a good play. No greater mistake can be made. When we have named Fielding, Goldsmith, Hook, Mitford, Jerrold, Inch bald,Bul wer,and Reade, we have we think exhausted the list of writers sucees,ful in both walks of literature. Indeed,there is no compari son i n th e risk of failure in th e t wo cases. A novelist may achieve success spite of a few badly-drawn characters, a dull chapter or two, a poor plot, or an unsa- tisfactory denouement. But one poor scene, one obnoxious character, one weak situation, will suffice to ruin a play, An unlucky sentence even has sometimes brought a piece to grief. Dryden is said to have lost his author's night on one occasion by making his heroine say—" My wound is great because it is so small," and affording the Duke of Buckingham the opportunity of displaying his wit, by ejaculating, " Then 'would be greater were it none at all I" And a tragedy, in which Garrick played an aged king, proceeded safely through four acts, till the monarch, when dying, divided his realm between his two sons, with the words, " Between you I bequeath my crown;" upon which a malicious pittite exclaimed, " Ye gods, he's given them half-a-crown apiece!" after which no more of the tragedy wail 4eard.—C/lambere3 journd, By command of the Queen, a drawing room was held yesterday at St. James's Palace by her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, on behalf of her Majesty. Presentations to her Royal Highness at this Court are, by the Queen's pleasure, to be considered as equivalent to presentations to her Majesty. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and escorted by a detachment of he Royal Horse Guards, proceeded from Marlborough house, and arrived at St. James's Palace at about 2 o'clock, where their Royal Highnesses were received by the Mistress of the Robes and the great officers of state of the Queen's household. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge ar rived at the Palace, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Colonel H. Putves. Their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelii.z arrived, attended by Lady Caroline Cust and Baron Plesson. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived, attended by his Equerry, Colonel Tyrwhitt. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar was present at the drawing room. Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms was on duty in the state saloons, under the command of the L'etrenant. The Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard were on duty under the command of Colonel Bourke, the Finn in Waiting. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales took her sta tion in front of the Throne, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the other members of the Royal Family, In attendance on the Princess of Wales were the Duchess of Wellington, Mistress of the Robes to the Queen, the Marchioness of Ely, the Countess of Caledon, the Vis countess Jocelyn, and the Lady Churchill in Waiting, Ladies of the Bedchamber to the Queen; the Lady Char lotte Copley and Viscountess Forbes in Waiting, Bed chamber Women to the Queen; the Countess De Grey, Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales; the Hon. Mrs. William C. Grey, Bedchamber Woman to the Princess of Wales; the Hon. Lucy Maria Kerr, the Hon. Caroline Fanny Cavendish, the Hon. Horatio Charlotte Btopford, the Hon. Harriett Phipps, with the Hon. Emily Cathcart and the Hon. Emma Lascelles in Waiting, Maids of Honour to the Queen ; the Earl of St. Germans, Lord Stewart; the Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain; Vis count Torrington, Lord in Waiting to the Queen; Colonel Francis Seymour, C 8., Groom in Waiting to the Queen; Major-General F. H. Seymour, Equerry in Waiting to the Queen ; Lord Proby, Controller of the Queen's Household ; Viscount Castlerosse, Vice-Chamberlain; the Marquis of Abercorn, acting for Earl Spencer, Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; Lieut.-General Knollys, Controller and Treasurer of the Prince's House hold; Lord Harris, Chamberlain to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales ; Lord Alfred Hervey, Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales; the Hon. Robert H. Meade, Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales; Major Teesdale, Equerry to the Prince of Wales; and Mr. Loftus and Mr. Paget, Pages of Honour in Wafting to the Queen. Fearful Weather in the Atlantic. The latest advices received from New York re port the prevalence of very heavy weather ir, the Atlantic. Several vessels which had left that port had returned in a disabled state, while the arrivals from Europe also reported having encountered fearful weather. The ship Henry, which left New York for Rotterdam March 19, encountered a suc- cession of heavy N. and N,E. gales from the time of her departure; and on the sth of April, in lat. 30 18, long. 59 44, daring a gale from the E.N.E. wias struck by a tremendous sea, which stove in the bow, carried away the bulwarks on both sides, swept the decks of everything moveable, stove the boats, forward hatch, and caused the vessel to spring a leak. The ship E. C. Scranton, which left New York on the 19th March, for Liverpool, re. turned on the 14th April, having, or the 23d and 24th April, in lat. 38, long. 69, experienced a heavy gale from E.N.E. to E.S.E. While lying to, she was thrown on her beam end.. On the 24th she bore up for New York with three feet of water in the hold and pumps choked with grain. She was obliged to throw a considerable portion of the cargo overboard to right her. After that she ex perienced a succession of heavy E.N.E. gales ; was blown south of the Gulf, bat crossed the Gulf again in lat. 36 30, with loss of bails, &c., the ship leaking very badly. The barque Baltasaia, which left New York for Glasgow on the 22d March, returned on the 18th April, having experienced the late easterly gales in all their severity. Captain M'Bride, of the British ship Czar, which arrived at New York on the 18th ult. from London, reports having encountered heavy gales, in one of which the ship lost all her masts, sails, &e. The . captain adds :—" I was in great danger when I was fallen in with by the Russian steam frigate Osliaba, Captain Boatatoff, who, after offering every assistance, took us in tow, and promised to stand to us until all his coals were out. At this time it was blowing a northeast gale, which circumstance increased the difficulty of taking warps on board, but the exertions of Captain Boutatoff and his crew were most praiseworthy. At last he succeeded in getting the warps on board, and it was not until that parted that he left us. I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to Captain Boutatoff and officers for their kind and generous conduot." THE POPE'S ALLOCUTION TO THE EMPEROR OF MEXICO.—The Unita Cattalica gives the following as the illocution addressed by the Pope to the Emperor and Empress of Mexico, in the chapel of the Vatican, before giving them communion:—" Behold tho lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world. It is through him that kings reign and princes rule. It is through Him that legis- lators administer justice, and though He sometimes permits monarchs to be tried, yet it is from him that all power comes from Him to whom all power in Heaven and earth has been given. In his name I recommend to you the prosperity of the Catholic people who have been entrusted to you. Great aro the rights of the people, and they must be satisfied, but greater and more sacred are the rights of the Church, the spotless spouse of Jesus Christ, who has re deemed us with his blood—that blood which is now to crimson your lips. You will, therefore, respect the rights of the people and of the Church, and will thus labour for the temporal and spiritual welfare of your subjects. May this Jesus whom you are about to receive from the hands of his vicar deign to give you his grace in the abundance of his mercy I" BLACKFRIARS' BRIDGE.—We are informed tha the real cause of the delay in opening the new temporary bridge at Blackfriars for traffic is, that although it has been completed by Messrs. Rennie and Logan in an approved manner, and the tenders sent in and disposed of for re moving the old one, and the securities in the latter case approved of, still the contract for the due performance of this part of the work had not up to yesterday evening been signed, and therefore that until that part of the matter is accomplished the temporary bridge must necessarily remain unopened. THE FEDERAL NAVY.—The Navy Register for 1864, which has been issued, is brought down to the middle of March, at which date there were 622 vessels of all classes in the navy, 432 of them steamers, and 74 iron clads and rams. The naval force is divided into nine squad• rons,—namely, the North Atlantic, under command of Acting Rear Admiral Lee—the South Atlantic, under Rear Admiral Dahlgren—the East Gulf, under Acting Rear Admiral Bailey—the West Gulf, under Rear Admiral Farragut—the Mississippi, under Roar Admiral Porter— the Special West India, under Acting Rear Admiral Lard ner—the Pacific, under Acting Rear Admiral Bell—the East India and Mediterranean, and the Potomac Flotilla. The total number of naval vessels lost, captured, destroyed, or sold since the beginning of the war is 42. Of these 11 fell into the hands of the Confederates,—namely, the Clifton, Diana, Harriet Lane, Indianola, Isaac Smith, Morning Light, Reliance, Sachem, Satellite, Underwriter, and Velocity.-412nerioan Paper. HEAT AND MOONLIGHT.—SOIIIO time ego, a body of sages had a long discussion, and wrote numerous treatises, to explain why it was that a lump of metal, if laid on water, would sink to the bottom, while, if it were beaten out into a sheet, it would float. The theories were very plausible, though they were opposed to ono another. At last tt occurred to one of the sages to suggest that it would be well to ascertain by actual experiment if it were really the fact that the metal would float under the circumstances stated. Accordingly, a vessel of water was brought, a sheet of the metal was laid on it, and it very soon lay at the bot tom. An example of the kind is furnished by Toaldo, the Italian meteorologist, who, to account for the belief current among wine• growers, that wine, the making of which is begun in the old moon and finished in the new, is never clear nor of good quality, attributes it to the circumstances that the absence of the lunar rays, by lowering the tempera ture of the air, checks the fermentation. Now, if it had occurred to him to expose the delicate thermometer to the full light of the moon shining Ns ith its greatest lustre, he would have found that the mercury was not elevated a hair's breadth ; neither would it have been, if he had exposed it in the focus of her rays, concentrated by the most powerful lenses. This has been proved by actual experiment. — Dickens's the ,Year publi‘hed today. 13.14. Bir Wol and Str Val al Blythe aLd Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co al Bristol and Exeter 10( I Caledonian 10( Cork and Bandon al Corn wall D o ,A ''t to div D o. B all 6p c.p au.has ta ) been paid to B. Dublin At Belfast June. al Dun.,Perth,StAb.. June. al Edinburgh k Glasgow. 101 Glaag, and S. Western. 10( GreatEastcrn, Ord. sth 10( Ditto A stock Ditto EastAnglian st 10( GreatNorthof Scotland 101 Great Northern.... 10( Do A stock Do it do . lOO Gt. S. and W. of 000 Great Western 100 Do Str Val b ona. sto3l; 10( Lancashite Yorkaliirc 10, (London and Blackwall 101 Lon., Bright.A S. Coast 10 , Lon., Chat., and Dover 101 Lon. & North Western 10( Lon. & &rah Western 10( Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 10( Maryport and Carlisle. al; shares.. al: Metropolitan al Midland Do New Do Binning. & Derby 10( tiid. Gt. W. of Ireland al. Do. t shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin.. Perth, & Dundee N th. Eastern—Berwim Do, G.N.E. purc~aE t 6 Do Lecds IC Do York Do Carlisle i North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction al Scottish Central Scot, E., Aber. stoci, 101 Do Scot. Mid. stock,. 101 ,Shrews. and Welohpoo ; al IShropshire Union „, 10( ;South DeTon 10( South Eastern 101 South Wales S. York and River Dun Staines,Woa.,andWok. al Stockton .Sr Darlington al Do Do New, 1836 l.l Taff Vale.... 'Do B I __Do C Ulster I a Do Do •••• Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny 10 , West Cornwall l O, W. Hartlepool Har.&R lOl West Midland - -Oxford 101 Do Newport 101 Do Hereford 101 BRITISH POSSE Sharc SSIONS gailways Closing Price. stock stock stock 100 stock itock 103 10 stock stock stock 20 stock stock stock, stook it:antic ttz St Lawrenc,. a, Bom.,Baroda&Centlne Gu. 5 per oent... Do, New .. I Do. E. Shares Buffalo and Late Huron al Do. Preference 13 ufalo,BrantotGodriel ich 5 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 18% Do. do. July 1, 187 10( Do. do. Julie I, 187,1 10( Clcutta.& S.Eastn. (Lin , 10( Cape Town & Dock Seri} lot Eastn. Bengal gu. 6p. c 100 East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. 100 Do. do. G Ext..... 15 Do. do. H do. .. 15 Grand Trunk of Canada Ho 26 Do. Ist Pref. 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A n.ar.Ont.. 101 10 103 w 1104 m ito7i 102 i 1032 4 IC3 31 100 f 1} 96 91 MENT SECURITIES, The Will of the Late Mr. Hutchinson. (From the Horning Post.) There are few topics in the discussion of which men are so apt to lose their temper and compromise their judgment as religion. There are none in which adherents of opposing creeds are so prone to credit suspicion of corrupt motives and unscrupu lous actions. No matter what sect or what learning the accused may faVonr—no matter how improbable or unfounded the charge► insinuated—the firs; im pulse is usually to grant it all credence with scarcely any investigation into the particulars. Mr. Smee, a surgeon in Finsbury, disputes the will of his brotherein-law, Mr. Hutchinson. Mr. Smee has secured one little fortune by marrying the sister of Mr. Hutchinson, and he conceives him selves defrauded of another because that gentleman chooses to bequeath his property in accordance with the bias of his whole life. That bias was at any rate not in favour of his relatives, and no wonder. Twenty years ago Mr, Hutchinscn, then a student at Cambridge, announced his intention to embrace the Roman Catholic religion. It must be obvious that the only course likely to diesuade the youthful and ardent imagination that could have conceived such a resolution would be the tender of firm, but calm and sensible, argument. Mr. Smee endea voured to accomplish it by writing most offensive letters; by telling his brother-in-law that his con version proceeded from a diseased mind—that he was lending himself to the mummery of a relent less body who would rob him of every farthing— that his friend Mr. Faber (who was converted about the same time) was a " debased villain," who ruled him for his own ambitious ends; and be finally clenched his arguments by complaining that such a change of religion would seriously injure him (Mr. Smee) in his professional capacity. This really throws quite a new light on the secrets of the me dical profession. Until now we had not the slightest notion that it was advantageous to a surgeon to possess relatives "sound" in a doctrinal sense; or that a schismatic doctor would be held incompetent to treat orthodox gout or bronchitis attached to the Established Church. It may be, however, easily supposed that such an opinion did not weigh much with a youth fervently awakened to the sense of his own salvation,or that the person who could advance it was capable of propounding others any better. The result was that Mr. Hutchinson was in due time ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and henceforth devoted himself and his means to the faith which he had embraced. He appears to have been an amiable and, according to his lights, a consistent man. He seems to have been rather less imagina tive and enthusiastic than is usually found in what are called "perverts." But of the goodness of his motives, or the sense of his actions, there can be no doubt. Instead of lavishing his small independence on ceremonies and psalmody, wax candles, or eccle siastical millinery, he devoted it to the establishment of ragged schools in Holborn and Drury-lane, which he superintended himself, and to instituting an orphanage, a reformatory, and model lodging-houses. He subsequently joined the Oratorians at Brompton, of whom we have heard so much lately, where he fitted up a small side chapel at his own expense, and where he expended nearly £l,OOO in the foundation of a theological library, a pious work in which he was engaged up to the time of his death. His whole life, in short, evinced him zealous and satisfied with the course he had so early chosen. In 1857 he made a journey to the Holy Land, where, appa rently, he found much to confirm and strengthen him in his views, but where, according to the tes imony of his fellow-travellers—one of them Sir Henry Holland—he evinced no symptom what ever of a heated or excited imagination. He re turned and again joined the Oratorians. It should be here observed that this institution is a sort of amateur monastery. The members are free to come and go just as they please; they take no vows neither of poverty nor of obedience. No one of them has any power over the others, nor is their property held in common. They subscribe a certain sum to a general fund, the distribution of which is regulated by the votes of the majority, and the rest of their property remains separate to the owners. Whilst devoting himself to the labours which this society imposes on itself the health of Mr. Hutchinson began to decline. In July, 1860, he made a will, and in the following August he executed a codicil. This testament bequeathed nearly all he possessed, but which had dwindled down to about £5,000 to Father Knox, also a member of the Oratory, no doubt with the intention that it should be applied to the carrying out theviews advocated by that community to which, for whatever might remain of his life, he had evidently devoted himself. This will Mr. Since disputed, on the ground that it was not " according to the requirements of the statute," that " the testator was not of sound mind," and that it was "secured by undue influence." He might just as well have added, " because he did:not leave his property to his sister." The plea would have been quite as reasonable. There never were allegations more utterly groundless than those thus advanced. The first was abandoned at the very outset. The will was found to have been drawn up by the testator's own authority, duly signed, and duly witnessed. His perfect possession of his in tellect, both before and after the execution of the will, was testified with a profusion of evidence that rather wearied the judge, and was indirectly confirmed, under cross-examination, by Mr. Smee himself, who admitted to the transaction of busi ness with him subsequent to that event. Lastly, no proof of the undue influence asserted was ever produced at the trial at all. In short, the merits of the ease may be deduced no less from the summing up than from the decision of the Judge Ordinary. He not only declined to call upon the counsel re t a i n ed in favour of the will to make any reply, but he at once pronounced for its validity, and con demned Mr. Smee in all costs, on the ground that there was not even a reasonable cause of suspicion against it, and that the case ought never to have been brought into court. This rather important decision will perhaps warn intended litigants in such cases to look a little more carefully and dispassionately into the matter before they leap. No doubt all sincere Protestants have a right to lament when their relatives forsake their creed. No doubt they may feel disappointed when the property of such " perverts" is found be queathed to the faith thus embraced. But it would be illiberality in its grossest ,sense to deny that such a conversion could possibly take place on sane and conscientious motives, or to assume that such a bequest was compaiible only with undue influence. Evil motives are easily imagined, but they should never be im puted save on well-weighed and most reasonable grounds. If they are to be tolerated, Mr. Smee himself is especially open to them. Mr. Hutchin son and his sister were wards of his own father. He marries the sister. What has he to answer if the Oratorians assert that union to have been ac complished by undue influence in order to obtain the fortune of his father's ward ? He disputes the brother's, and in the event of success the property in question would revert to his own wife. Mr. Smee has need just now of all charity towards his proceedings, for he has utterly failed to establish any one of his allegations. SENTENCE OF DEATII.—The Earl of Ellen borough's bill begins by enacting that no sentence of death shall be carried into execution without the autho rity of one of the Secretaries of State." Whenever a per son is sentenced to death, the judge before whom such per son is tried is forthwith to make a report thereof to the Secretary of State, and that functionary is to summon the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, the Recorder (if the sentence is passed in London), and all such members of the Privy Council as are at the time intrusted specially with the duty of advising her Majesty (five to be the quorum), to meet to consider all the c ircumstances of the trial, and all the information and representations the Secretary of State may have received relative thereto, and their advice as to the carrying thaendsehnetren;lea jiensttoy,sexpelecaustuiorne itsakteonbtehleariedupbeoftio.re i her h el.Majesty,i‘ia Majesty ty signify her intention to be present the great officers of state are to be summoned, as was accustomed when the sovereign presided at the con sideration of the reports made by the Recorder of London. After these proceedings the requisite order is to be given by th e Secretary of State for the law taking its course ca for commutation of the sentence. Tho bill extends only to England. It is not to affect the Royal prerogative of mercy. 1 SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, (13y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CHESTER RACES—This DAY. THREE YEAR OLD BIENNIAL. Cutaway Effio _ 2 Welbeck Five ran. WELTER CUP. Despair The Clown THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. CHESTER RACES.—Tars DAY. The Chester Cup. FLASH IN THE PAN LITTLE STAG . TIPPLER .... LORD ZETLAND Twenty ran. Won in a canter by ten lengths ; four lengths between second and third, £4O HANDICAP PLATE. Airedale ..... 3 Erytheia Gipsy Girl . 3 Eight ran. MEMBERS' PLATE. Lady Clifden OOO 3.0 • • 1 Garotter THE DERBY.—No betting. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS.---This Day, '''The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. BOILER EXPLOSIONS. Mr. FERRAND brought in a bill with reference to boiler explosions, which was read a first time. STREET MUSIC. Mr. BASS brought in a bill with reference to street music, which was read a first time. AUSTRIA AND DENMARK. Mr. D. GRIFFITH gave notice that on the 13th inst., on the motion for adjournment of the house for the Whit suntide holidays, he should call attention to the permission which had been given to the Austrian squadron to leave these shores and take up a position favourable for the fur ther prosecution of the war against Denmark without any practical check or supervision by means of the presence o f a British naval force. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (METRIC SYSTEM) BILL. Mr. EWART moved that the house resolve itself int committee en this bill. Mr. HUMBERSTONE said he did not believe the people of this country were prepared to give up their weights and ) measures to which they had long been accustomed, and I measures bearing foreign names. If the house had just confined itself to a measure for making improvements in the weights and measures of this coun try, it would have re , ceived;very properly general support. As to the measure now before the house he should say " no" to the proposi ' tion for going into committee. ' Mr. ADDERLEY thought great convenience would accrue to the commercial and trading community by the adoption of the metric system. The house had already twice adopted the principles of the bill, and he therefore hoped the measure would be allowed to go into committee, After a few words from Mr. D. GRIFSITH, the house went into committee on the bill. Clause 1 was agred to. On clause 2, Mr. M. GIBSON said the clause enacted that from and after this bill the metric system shall be legal, and may be used for all purposes of weights and measures. He thought that was proceeding too fast, because no means of verifi cation had yet been introduced into the bill proposed to establish a new national standard. (Hear.) He thought for the present, the hon. gentleman having this bill in charge ought to rest satisfied with going the length of enacting that no contracts shall be deemed invalid in which the weights and measures therein mentioned referred to the metric system. He did not think that one single retail dealer in the country would go to the expense of providing himself with a set of metric weights and measures which would cost him over 120, on the chance of a customer coming in and desiring to be served in litres and grams, in stead of ounces and pounds. (Hear, hear.) Mr. AYRTON was of opinion that steps ought to be taken to disseminate information to the public generally as to the metric system, before .a measure of this description was passed into a law. He thought that what he proposed might be done in about six months. After some discussion, Mr. M. GIBSON proposed that a clause should be intro duced into the bill acknowledging contracts made in the metric system; and said that, in the event of his proposition being agreed to, he would undertake to publish a table of equivalents in an official form from the Board of Trade. Mr. EWART eventually moved that the Chairman re port progress, un the understanding that the right hon. gentleman (&Ir. Gibson) would do all in his power to meet the object of the bill. The motion was agreed to, and the Chairman accordingly reported progress, CHIEF RENTS (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. LONGFIELD moved that the house go into eon) 4 mittee on this bill, which was merely permissive, the object of it being to facilitate the disposal and purchase of land in Ireland, upon. which there were small limited in terests in . the form of chief rents. After a short discussion the motion was agreed to, but on the Srst question, viz., that the preamble be postponed, Colonel French moved that the Chairman report progress. The committee divided, when the appeared— For the motion Against it .... Majority 2B The preamble was then postponed, and the consideration. of the clauses of the bill wus then proceeded with. The first three, after some amendment, were agreed to. Clauses 4,8, and 9 were struck out. The other clauses were agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be reprinted.i ADMIRALTY LANDS AND WORKS BILL. This bill was read a second time. PROMISSORY NOTES AND BILLS OF EX CHANGE BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. PIER AND HARBOUR ORDERS CONFIRMA TION BILL. Mr. M. GIBSON obtained leave to bring in a bill for confirming certain provisional orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour, 1861, relating to Brighton, Eastbourne, Sandown, Walton on the Naze, Clevedon, Rhyl, Bray, Kircubbin, Walton (Suffolk), Holy wood, Exe Bight, Lytham, Ardglass, Filey, Greenock, Carlingford Lough, Wexford, Torquay, and Oban. COLONIAL GOVERNORS. Mr. B. COCHRANE moved for copy of all correspon dence since 1840 between the Colonial-office and governors of her Majesty's colonies, respecting the granting of pen-, sions or superannuation allowances to Governors of cob°. Eiee,—Ordered. NEW WRIT. A writ was ordered to issue for the election of a member for the borough of Stockport, in the room of Mr. Kershaw, deceased. The house then adjourned. COURT OF QITEEIV'S BENCIL—This day, TILE QUEEN 7. RUALBLE—THE RAPAHANNOCK CASE. The Middlesex Grand Jury came i n t o court late this will be th a t t h e defendant will be tried afternoon with a true blll against William R um bl e , c h arged with a misdemeanour under the F ore i gn Enlistment Act. at The ee effectafter of this Sitting,w unless the Att orney -G enera ] c l a ims the righ t of a trial at bar. SHIPPING -THIS DAY. LONDON, May 4.—Wind this day at noon—South. East ; moderate breeze and showery. FALMOUTH, May 4.—Arrived—Dankeld, from Havan. nah, leaky. CLIDB: May I—Arrived—Tay, from Havannah. Sailed —Beautiful Star, for Otago, N.Z.—Jano Henderron, for Rangoon. PS)RTSMOUTII, May 3.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived— Gustav Adolphe, from Gothenburg for the Cape of Good Hope. NEWPORT, May 3.—Wind N.W,—Sailed—Adler, for Bermuda. Mus Tor, May 2.—Wind N.W. — Arrived—Francis Richard, from Rio Grande. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GZAvEsEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, May 3.—Sibyl, from Catania—Courier, from Aarhuus—Thor and Bellona, from Corfu--Catalina, from Porto 117 ilhelmina, and May Excel—all from from Terceira—Bahthorp, from G Rico—Pauline, Alexandria —Marys, from Guernsey—Ocean Breeze, from Algiere—Peri, from Leghorn. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Several vessels arrived in. No numbers made. IVind too strong for boarding. Sailed,—H,M, yacht Osborne, and Liverpool, for thl River,